Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 'ip6' filter on Solaris does not work?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:11:26 -0800
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:25:23AM -0600, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> It is libpcap that is crashing. From looking at libpcap's gencode.c
> file, where gen_proto_abbrev() is defined, gen_proto_abbrev() will
> abort() if the protocol is not known.

But it shouldn't abort if you supply "ip6" as a filter - it should
complain that IPv6 isn't supported.

I'll look into that when I get some time.